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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Hegseth publicly HUMILIATED by rising Democratic star

                                                                    

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Dem senator humiliates Pentagon Pete with basic war questions
Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth sat before the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday and had his sanctimonious ass handed to him by Sen. Jon Ossoff. The Georgia Democrat repeatedly used Hegseth's own words against him as he questioned why the Pentagon needed an additional $67 BILLION just to get through the end of this fiscal year on September 30.

Pete came asking for a handout, but it was Ossoff who showed up with the receipts. He calmly noted that Hegseth previously declared Operation Epic Fury a "historic and overwhelming victory" and claimed that Iran and been rendered "combat-ineffective for years to come." When he asked Hegseth if his declaration just 14 days into the war — nearly five months ago — that the Iranian military had been "destroyed" was accurate, the increasingly agitated Defense secretary predictably equivocated.

Hegseth also claimed the total price tag for the Iran war so far was $37.5 billion, a number THREE TIMES lower than our own intelligence community's estimates. Keep up the good work, Pete.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump gets MANIPULATED by foreign leader at the White House
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun showed the world just how susceptible our man-toddler-in-chief is to nakedly saccharine praise yesterday. We'd call it a master class, but the truth is, a kindergartener could pull off the same.

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Democrat in must-win red-to-blue race hit with DERANGED attack from Trump
JoAnna Mendoza for Congress: Trump's Super PAC has just released an absolutely unhinged new ad against veteran and top Democratic House candidate JoAnna Mendoza, pulling out the same anti-trans hysteria playbook of LIES that he used against Kamala Harris. It's an all-hands-on-deck moment to fight back against this devious misinformation. Will you chip in to help Joanna flip this winnable red seat and take back control of Congress from the GOP?

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Mamdani ignites MAGA firestorm — and draws liberal praise — with new Netanyahu arrest demand
In a stunning public address, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sadly concluded that the city does not have the authority to unilaterally arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called on the federal government to act. Mamdani noted: "The federal government, however, does — and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large."

The mayor described Netanyahu — accurately, we should note — as "a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people” and reiterated that he believes the Israeli leader "belongs in The Hague," where the ICC is based. Can you imagine Bashar al-Assad, or Slobodan Milošević, or Saddam Hussein being allowed to freely stroll around Manhattan like they're just any other world leader? Us neither.

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IN ADDITION, CRAIG UNGER REPORTED THAT A FLORIDA SHERIFF WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR WORKING FOR RUSSIA AND BEING PAID TO UNDERMINE BIDEN WITH DISINFORMATION - FLED TO RUSSIA WITH EPSTEIN TAPES WHERE HE WAS GRANTED ASYLUM! PUTIN NOW HAS BLACKMAIL MATERIAL!
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Trump downplays China's election meddling: "We do things to them, too"
Days after throwing down a suspicious gauntlet on primetime TV and flatly accusing China of meddling in the 2020 election with the express purpose of ousting him from office, Mr. America First pulled a stunning about-face, downplaying the severity of the supposed sabotage as something that took place "a long time ago." It's quite the pivot from a thin-skinned man who notoriously holds grudges for even the slightest offenses.

Five days after accusing the Chinese government of executing "the largest compromise of election data in history" — the sort of provocation you'd think would animate the full might and muscle of the most powerful government on the planet — Donald was in a much more amenable mood, telling reporters, "I think China's maybe a little bit different today than it was then. But look, they do things. And we do things to them. I'll be honest. We do things to them, too. It's not a one-way street. But we'll be talking to them."

We're sure the United States' intelligence community will be just thrilled to hear Trump talking so openly about some of our, um, more indecorous activities...

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END TRUMP'S IRAN LUNACY! 

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Mike Johnson breaks with Trump on Iran war: "We've got to wrap it up"
House Speaker Mike Johnson has apparently FINALLY found a newspaper and learned that the United States is at war with Iran — without any approval from the governing body he's in charge of — and he's decided that it's time for it to end...immediately after Trump burned all the diplomatic bridges, restarted the war, and ensured that a peaceful end to the conflict was all but impossible without one side choosing to stop firing.

If only there was a guy with the power to end a war, possibly with some kind of governing gavel given to him by an elected body of his peers...


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Ken Paxton flees own press conference when asked about his scandals
Standing before a podium with a poster plastered to it reading "Talarico: Handcuffed To His Record," state Attorney General and sentient cigar stub Ken Paxton refused to answer straightforward questions about his various scandals, telling reporters he wanted to "keep this to law enforcement today."

It's a classic have-it-both-ways move from the insufferable MAGA Senate candidate. Flanked by more than a dozen law enforcement officers in cowboy hats, Paxton was holding a press conference to tout the endorsements he'd received from 22 local sheriffs. But damned if he wouldn't answer a single question about the laws he has repeatedly broken in his decade in office, including repeatedly voting in elections using an illegitimate address — otherwise known as voter fraud.

Rather than respond, Paxton simply walked away. From his own presser. What an alpha-male.

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Trump agrees to provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear program

The president of the United States just signed off on a 30-year deal gifting the world's biggest historical funder of 9/11-linked extremism the green light to enrich uranium — ya know, the very thing we're ostensibly at war with Iran over right now. 

This less than eight years after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Nonproliferation experts have rightly warned any spinning centrifuges within Saudi Arabia could open the door to a future weapons program for the kingdom — something MBS has previously vowed to pursue should arch-enemy Iran ever obtain nuclear weapons.

What could possibly go horribly wrong handing one terror-funding petro-monarchy in the Middle East keys to the enrichment kingdom while literally bombing another for pursuing the same?

Rogue AI escapes human control just like we feared
Histrionic warnings of AI's inherent deceptive alignment issues and the inevitable AI singularity are totally overblown, right? Right?!

Measles cases in US hit 35-year-high, surpassing 2025 infection rate
Transmission accomplished. Good job, Bobby. 🙄

Trump advisers scramble to talk him out of more disastrous tariffs
Good luck turning that ship around! Donald's handlers stand a better chance getting the wannabe dictator to quit his Diet Coke habit, but who are we to disagree?

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Sunday, July 19, 2026

Sunday Afternoon News Updates: Strait Lies From the Trump Regime — 7/19/26

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Sunday Afternoon News Updates: Strait Lies From the Trump Regime — 7/19/26

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Hi all, Ben here. It’s Sunday, and there is a lot to get through. Thanks so much for all the nice comments on my morning message earlier. And thanks again to all of you who’ve already preordered our new book, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. If you’ve preordered, be sure to let me know in the comments!

Here’s what we’re tracking today:

  • The Strait of Hormuz standoff and Chris Wright’s ABC interview

  • Trump’s “I couldn’t care less” reaction to the war’s escalation after U.S. soldiers are killed

  • The U.S. Embassy in Amman evacuating Aqaba’s airport and seaport over a “credible security threat”

  • Israeli forces entering Syria’s Quneitra province

  • James Comer admitting the House is basically done working before the midterms

  • Mike Johnson’s “Marxism begins with no God” speech at the Family Leadership Summit

  • The Mamdani “babysitting” panic on Fox

  • Tim Dillon torching the “Deep State” excuse

  • Obama’s dig at JD Vance

  • Hunter Biden’s remarks on the state of the country

  • New 2026 midterm forecasting from Pete Buttigieg and the Cook Political Report

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Now let’s get into it.

Trump Sends Out The Proxies

Donald Trump’s escalation of the war with Iran has backfired, and Iran has proven it can hit U.S. air bases across the Middle East hard. Trump himself barely surfaced today. Instead, he sent out his energy secretary, Chris Wright, to go on ABC’s “This Week” and insist the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz and is the one directing traffic through it.

Host Jonathan Karl pushed back, reminding Wright that back in March he’d promised this conflict would be over in a matter of weeks. We are now nearly five months in. Wright’s answer amounted to acknowledging the military phase went longer than planned, then claiming there was a “pivot” toward simply guaranteeing oil flow without Iran’s cooperation. Karl noted that ship traffic through the strait has visibly dropped, pointing out that only eight vessels moved through on Thursday. Wright disputed that, citing a seven-day trailing average he put at just under 7 million barrels a day.

Iran isn’t just surviving this war, it appears to be adapting to it in real time, and the number of U.S. military assets it has managed to destroy over just the last week alone is staggering. I’ll walk you through the geolocated footage and the base-by-base damage in a moment.

Jordan Evacuates

While Wright was on television insisting everything is under control, the U.S. Embassy in Amman issued a warning that, due to a “credible security threat,” Aqaba International Airport and Jordan’s seaport have been evacuated entirely. The U.S. has effectively turned Aqaba’s civilian airport into a military base, one of five American installations in Jordan whose main jobs are defending Israel from Iranian projectiles and serving as a launchpad for strikes on Iran.

Iran has already hit other bases in Jordan, and the Trump regime has confirmed at least two American service members killed. I believe that number is almost certainly higher than what’s being reported. When Trump was asked about Iran walking away from its memorandum of understanding, he told a reporter over the phone that he “couldn’t care less.” When pressed on the troop deaths, the White House line was that the two killed had made “the ultimate sacrifice,” their deaths a “shame” but the mission “critical,” according to the New York Post. “Have you ever asked how many people died in Vietnam?” Trump responded in defense of the war and the mounting casualty count.

Even Fox’s Own Guests Are Confused

On her own show this morning, Maria Bartiromo had on former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates, and Bartiromo herself sounded confused about what she was being told to sell. She noted that Centcom keeps promising outsized retaliation, yet Iran keeps hitting Gulf countries and U.S. bases, despite the Trump regime’s repeated claims that Iran’s military has been “obliterated.” MAGA commentator Matt Van Swol asked online how, exactly, the world’s most powerful military can spend four months bombing Iran and still watch Iran hit American bases. Trump said their missiles were destroyed! How is this possible?!?

MAGA is either blind to or is willfully overlooking the obvious answer. Donald Trump has been lying about this from the start, just as he lies about everything. The United States did not obliterate Iran’s military last year. If anything, Iran’s ballistic and drone capabilities appear to have grown, and its tactics have visibly sharpened. As our editor in chief Ron Filipkowski put it: maybe it’s time to consider the possibility that Trump lied. I know, hard to imagine.

According to the IRGC Navy, four tankers tried to leave the strait this morning via an unauthorized route; two were struck and disabled, two turned back. Iran also announced it shot down yet another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone, this time over Ahvaz. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Iran has been shooting these down at a rate of roughly one a day. By the low estimate, that’s around 30 Reaper drones destroyed, and it may be closer to 50, representing billions of dollars in hardware, on top of helicopters and additional drones destroyed at bases in Jordan and elsewhere. The U.S. has reportedly had to shift much of its remaining regional airpower into Israel, where the Golden Dome system and Israel’s own defenses offer more protection, effectively leaving the Gulf partners who signed onto Trump’s security arrangements more exposed than ever.

The U.S. is now rushing additional advanced warplanes and support assets to the Middle East, per the New York Times, a sign that things appear to only be escalating.

Images of the destruction of an MQ-9 Reaper and recovery of the wreckage by IRGC Navy in Asaluyeh in the Persian Gulf, Iran.

Meanwhile, in Syria, Israeli forces entered the village of al-Samdaniyah al-Sharqiyah in Quneitra province with five military vehicles, set up a checkpoint, searched civilians, and fired a mortar round and a smoke shell nearby. No casualties were reported, but Syrian state media condemned it as another incursion and demanded a full Israeli withdrawal, according to SANA.

Congress Packs Up, Epstein Files Still Buried

Back home, House Oversight Chair James Comer all but admitted his committee is done doing any real oversight before the midterms. He told Fox they have “a number of reasons” to wrap things up this week, including Congress heading into its August recess and then straight into election season. Translation: no more digging into the Epstein files, no accountability.

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson used a speech at the Family Leadership Summit to argue that Marxism, communism, and socialism all begin from the premise that there is no God, and that once you remove God from the equation, individual dignity and freedom supposedly disappear too. It’s a rhetorical trick worth naming for what it is. Trump himself has joked he’d make “the best communist” because he’d promise everyone free things and then simply not deliver, a line that captures the actual pattern of this regime better than Johnson’s speech does. Under Trump, affordability has cratered, healthcare has been stripped away, and data centers are popping up in neighborhoods nobody asked for, while the ruling class does just fine.

The Mamdani Babysitting Panic

Naturally, with all of that going on, Fox “News” decided the real story of the day was New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s plan for a “Parents’ Night Out,” where the Parks Department would offer free supervised childcare at a rec center. Fox contributor Joe Concha reacted like Mamdani had proposed handing kids to strangers off the street, joking about leaving his own kids with “commie kindergarten.” This is what state-friendly media does when Trump is busy looting the country in plain sight: manufacture a moral panic over a free babysitting program.


Rebukes of Trump on the Podcast Circuit

It’s worth noting when people outside the usual progressive lane start saying the quiet part out loud. Podcaster and comedian Tim Dillon pointed out that Republicans control the White House, Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, so the “Deep State” excuse doesn’t hold up anymore. It is simply them now.

Former President Obama, in a recent podcast appearance, took aim at JD Vance’s rhetoric about “blood and soil” versions of who counts as American, noting the irony of Vance, married to the daughter of an immigrant, making that kind of argument. Obama’s line was that moving from outright exclusion to hypocrisy is its own strange form of progress, since hypocrisy at least requires enough guilt to lie to yourself or others.

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Hunter Biden on the USA

Hunter Biden has been making the rounds lately, and his latest statement is worth your attention. He argues America isn’t naturally divided so much as it’s being divided on purpose, by an oligarchy that profits from the fighting while capturing the government, gutting healthcare, and burying the country in debt. He’s calling for a “New New Deal”: healthcare as a right, housing as a right, an end to endless war, and a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, since he argues that economy was built on collective human inheritance, not just claimed by a handful of tech barons. He also framed accountability for the Trump family and administration as a matter of truth and reconciliation rather than revenge, and made the case that a country, like a person in recovery, can’t heal what it won’t name.

The Midterm Math Is Shifting

Pete Buttigieg told MSNOW that Democrats have a genuine shot at flipping statewide seats in Florida this November, arguing that after nearly 30 years of one-party rule, voters are recognizing it hasn’t worked for them, and that the hunger for change is showing up even in supposedly safe red states.

The Cook Political Report backs that up with real forecast movement. Ohio’s governor race moved from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Arizona moved from Toss Up to Lean Democrat. Maine went from Likely Democrat all the way to Solid Democrat, and New Mexico did the same.

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